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Sara-Ann: That first picture made my heart skip a beat. I've been feeling quite guilty about not taking any picture of all the lovely blooms that have happened this year, I'm swamped with gardening work! Therefore I am very grateful that you took your time to capture their utmost beauty at the perfect moment--someone should do it! :D I think you are becoming the new "eye candy-shop" owner here ;) Love and appreciation to you, your darling roses and grandchildren.
Carol - Thank you so much. You and others have been such encouragers and I do appreciate that so much. Hope everyone has roses blooming very soon. Rosbybunny that is such a nice compliment. I would love to see pictures of your roses when and if you get the time to take them and share. I think roses are so beautiful and I do love seeing them at their best, no matter who grows them. There are so many talented and gifted people on this forum, I have learned so much this past year.
Just a guess, lol, because it's still hard to know, but I think you might have some canker-dead or otherwise dead canes and I think they also got too dry recently.
It looks like they definitely need some pruning of the dead stuff, and I'd check carefully for cankers at the junctions of canes or at the bases. Or you might find holes down through the canes (I have bad borers, so that might just be me).
I don't think the major defoliation looks to be definitely related to the problem with the canes, though. It seems pretty sudden. Unless you have something weird going on with the roots (voles?), I think they probably just got too hot and dry recently. Once will do it ;)
I'd start by pruning (and checking the canes closely), and also make sure that the soil stays a little moist all the time. And look for critter holes nearby! I have voles, but I plant in wire cages now so that they can't eat the roots. That will cause very quick defoliation, but the rose will also usually pull out easily (and depressingly).
I'm not an expert, but the miracle grow in the hole when planting could cause fertilizer root burn. that should have been put on the top under mulch. I would just cut off the dead black canes , give them some mulch and keep up the deep watering, if it is fertilizer burn the deep watering should take care of it. Great of you to rescue these roses!
Time to bring this forum back!
It turns out I was impatient. My rose IS black baccara and gives me beautiful bouquet flowers! :D
Here is a photo of the first bloom! ^_^
I cannot wait for it to get bigger and give me vase-quality long stems and flowers! I love this bush ^_^
seil -- it is a doubel ko rose bought at Costco for $15. They had a ton of them and they were all good size.
I neglected to mention that we dug up and moved that sad little rose over a foot to better space the new one. I just hope I didn't kill it. That would be a whole waste of a year.
I am going to trim it, fertilize, and hope for the best!
You did not kill it. It is tough to kill a knockout. I initially hated mine, and subject them to various abuses (e.g., move in the middle of summer, worst garden real estate). They just hang tough and were barely bothered. Now, I have new appreciation for them and enjoy them a lot more. Other than a little winter kill, yours look fine.
If not black-red, then some other compact hardy roses to grow in central-west Massachusetts??
For roses that if I were growing them in your area, I would NEITHER protect nor pamper and still expect to be fabulous in a couple of years, then please see the list of roses in the post by
the_morden_man
in the thread linked below:
Here is a link that might be useful: most blackspot resistant hybrid tea?
Oh, I see they were sold to another company. I know when I ordered from them years ago, they had great customer service. I finally got the roses, they look fine, except one of them had a cane that was ripped so badly, I had to cut it off. I believe I am going to stick with J&P.
Vettin - They are grafted, I'm sure they are on Dr. Huey. I didn't order anything from Witherspoon this year, but I wish I had. Another very good US company is Regan, they have a very good selection, also on Dr. Huey. They ship very healthy plants. Those are the two companies I can think of that carry a good selection of non-patented roses. I'm usually pleased with Edmunds, but their quality wasn't quite as good this year. I received my Roses Unlimited order today, of course theirs are own root. I ordered La France, Royal Highness and Lemon Spice Hybrid Teas, they look healthy. They all had blooms on them. The La France and Lemon Spice smell wonderful, the blooms looked full size.
Well at least I'm not alone, and I am lucky to not have completely lost any roses this winter like so many here. It was in the eighties all week this week so perhaps this bad spring is all behind us!
It sounds the your roses are healthy, just the small blooms. I hope that somehow that will bring on a beautiful later in the season flush. By that time my roses won't be looking so great, especially if we don't get some decent rain here.